I asked the question on the discord server and I confirm that, at the moment, the force_update is not possible with the native API integration, only with the MQTT implementation.
I wish that there was a force_update on the native api. For me depending on the time interval I select some of my temperature data in grafana does not show
I am having an issue here with an SML powermeter and an attached derivative sensor. If the meter does not increase, the derivative is stuck at the last old value for a long time.